California dreaming prompts Pioneer Square crime spree

Her note said so. And so did, police say, her actions Wednesday morning in Pioneer Square.

By the time the 27-year-old woman was behind bars, she had tried to stab a man with a pen, pulled a woman’s hair as she tried to steal her purse, got into a melee with parking enforcement officers and punched a security guard.

And she’s still not going to California.

It all started before 11 a.m. at a coffee shop near 3rd Avenue and Jackson Street. The woman tried to stab a man with a pen in the shop. She also threw a note on the table where the man was sitting that said she needed money to return to California.

The man suffered only a scrape on the neck.

The woman’s charm offensive failed, so she went outside, where she ran into another woman. She showed her note, then tried to grab the other woman’s purse, pulling hair to get it.

Two parking enforcement officers tried to help, and the suspect pushed one of them. They managed to get her on the ground, but not before she managed to get in a punch to a security guard who was also helping.